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Announcing "Jazz in Ramadan"
"Jazz in Ramadan" shares jazz with everyone! “Jazz in Ramadan" proposes the idea that social peace comes first and foremost from the sharing artistic inspiration, will feature world-renown jazz musicians from the Muslim world all through the Ramadan. We will celebrate Ramadan, a time of peace that strengthens social ties, spontaneously calls to mind the importance ...
Joe Cuba: A Man & His Music--El Alcalde del Barrio
by Chris M. Slawecki
Exhaustive and exhausting (because you won't be able to stop dancing), A Man & His Music--El Alcalde del Barrio presents the first major retrospective of the 240 albums recorded by Joe Cuba, the Father of Latin boogaloo, and was released in February 2010 to commemorate the one year anniversary of his passing.Gilberto Navarro was ...
Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim: Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim: The Complete Reprise Recordings
by Chris M. Slawecki
Finally.The Complete Reprise Recordings compiles every tune--all 20--that America's supreme vocalist recorded with Brazil's preeminent composer during their legendary late 1960s summits. The first ten comprise the famous, fantastic Francis Albert Sinatra / Antonio Carlos Jobim album arranged and orchestrated by Claus Ogerman, released by Reprise in 1967. Sinatra and Jobim reconvened two years ...
Janiva Magness: The Devil is an Angel Too
by Chris M. Slawecki
Just one listen to The Devil is an Angel Too, Janiva Magness' ninth album and second for Chicago's venerated blues label Alligator, immediately reveals why she's the Blues Music Awards' reigning “Contemporary Blues Female Artist of the Year" and “B.B. King Entertainer of the Year" (only the second female to cop the “Entertainer" honor--Koko Taylor was ...
Clutchy Hopkins: The Story Teller
by Chris M. Slawecki
Clutchy Hopkins is one of the most inscrutable musical characters you'll ever meet, if you could meet him. No one seems to know who he is, including and especially his record label, or even if Clutchy Hopkins is a singular him or a collective them. Complicating the matter, The Story Teller has vocals but not one ...
Sergio Mendes Comes to the Hollywood Bowl
SERGIO MENDES COMES TO THE HOLLYWOOD BOWL | MORCHEEBA OPENS FRIDAY AND SATURDAY, JULY 30 AND 31, 2010, AT 8:30 PM July 30 Media Sponsors: Hollywood & Highland Center, Univision/TeleFutura July 31 Media Sponsor: Univision/TeleFutura Brazilian pop maestro Sergio Mendes comes to the Hollywood Bowl for two nights, Friday and Saturday, July 30 ...
Tomisheep: Rhodes Trip
by Chris M. Slawecki
Tamas Barany studied for eight years at the Bela Bartok Music Academy in his native Hungary and in 2004 was appointed a Knight in the Order of Saint George (Eastern Europe's oldest chivalric order, established in 1326), an appointment he accepted as a pianist, accompanied by an oath to protect the origins of traditional Hungarian music.
Carmen Souza: Protegid
by Chris M. Slawecki
One often hears the expression, “It's all over the map." But it's rarely used been more truthfully or appropriately than when applied to Protegid, the third album by vocalist Carmen Souza, born in Lisbon, of Cape Verdean descent, and now residing in London. Singing in a colorful, eclectic Portuguese-based Creole, Souza illuminates, stretches, and snaps back ...
Sing it Out to Swing it Out!
by Chris M. Slawecki
Through samples and loops, vocalese accompaniment within a chorus, harmony behind a verse, or a featured vocalist singing standard verses and choruses, the human voice brings a warm commonality to music from almost every space and time, including these six new and recent releases. Joe Cuba A Man & His Music--El Alcalde ...
Raul Malo in Philly July 31 Previewing Forthcoming CD
Raul Malo to Perform Saturday, July 31 at the Sellersville Theater to Preview Upcoming CD Self-produced in his home studio, Sinners & Saints is the most intimate, honest and complex album Raul Malo has made in an already distinguished career. One hears in it a lifetime's journey, from the singer-songwriter's youth in Cuban neighborhoods of Miami ...
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